Excavations In Prehistoric Chinese Cave Uncover Unusual Collections Of Large Mammals
Cincinnati -- Lumbering rhinos and elephant-like Stegodons arenot the type of animal you would expect to find deep inside amountainous cave, but those are exactly the type of animalsshowing up in large numbers in prehistoric deposits in the Panxian Dadong Cave in southern China...Cheap coffee is lousy for tigers, elephants, rhinos Science says
... contributing to the loss of tigers, elephants and rhinos living half a world away, according to a study by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, published in the journal Science. The study says that increased production of robusta coffee, the inexpensive variety commonly sold in cans and used i...Climate change plus human pressure caused large mammal extinctions in late Pleistocene
...arance of Clovis-style hunters, camels and horses, rhinos and peccaries, short-faced bears and saber-toothed tigers, as well as the armadillo-like glyptodonts and the giant ground sloths (Megatheriadae), all disappeared from the North American continent. "Humans and climate change came together at exactly t...